AutoTester file limit

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:22:25 -0400, Kapps <opantm2+spam at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 10:04:35 UTC, Robert Schadek via  
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Currently I have problems with my Logger PR. It magically fails from
>> time to time.
>> Whenever it fails std.socket fails with:
>>
>> "Open file hard limit too low"
>>
>> As far as I can see that is why my tests fail as well. Is this limit a
>> known problem? Suggestions?
>
> I could be wrong about this, but from what I remember this comes down to  
> DMC's runtime library. The max number of open file descriptors with apis  
> such as fopen is pretty low (about 70 from what I remember)

It's 64.

But I would hope std.socket doesn't use DMC file descriptors. Winsock  
doesn't use them.

-Steve